When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan.

Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Start of the trial against 55-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General for the rape of Anne Bond on 10 November 1729 in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

The jury quickly found Charteris guilty. On 2 March, he was sentenced to death and held in Newgate Prison. On 10 April 1730 after a substantial campaign to pardon Charteris, joined by Anne Bond, King George II granted him a royal pardon.

(+)154 years ago

Wednesday 27th of February 1861

Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is born in Ludbreška ulica 13, Kraljevec, Međimurska županija, Austria-Hungary.

(-)128 years ago

Sunday 27th of February 1887

Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in United States Federal Building and Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement,Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

(x)29 years ago

Wednesday 26th of February 1986

50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

(-)15 years ago

Saturday 26th of February 2000

Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.

2 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 26th of February 2013

James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium.

Writer Anthony Burgess, originally John Anthony Burgess Wilson known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange is born in 91 Carisbrook Street, Harpurhey, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

(-)93 years ago

Saturday 25th of February 1922

Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

(+)84 years ago

Wednesday 25th of February 1931

Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.

(-)51 years ago

Tuesday 25th of February 1964

Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in New York City, New York, United States.

(-)46 years ago

Tuesday 25th of February 1969

Revolutionary student Jan Zajíc commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Around 1:30 in the afternoon Zajíc walked into the passageway of the building at No. 39 on Wenceslas Square and ignited his chemical-soaked clothes. Zajíc was unable to run out of the door and collapsed and died in the hallway. "Mother, father, brother, little sister! – When you read this letter, I will already be dead or close to death. I know what a severe blow my act will be to you, but don't be angry at me. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this world. I am not doing this because I would be tired by life, on the contrary, because I cherish it too much. Hopefully my act will make life better. I know the price of life and I know it is the most precious thing. But I want a lot for you, for everyone, so I have to pay a lot. Do not lose your heart after my sacrifice, tell Jacek to study harder and Marta too. You must never accept injustice, be it in any form, my death will bind you. I am sorry that I will never see you or that, which I loved so much. Please forgive me that I fought with you so much. Do not let them make me a madman. – Say hi to the boys, the river and the forest."

(-)45 years ago

Wednesday 25th of February 1970

Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, originally Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz commits suicide by slashing his arms at the age of 67 in 118 E. 95th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Rothko's body was found by his assistant Oliver Steindecker when Steindecker arrived in the morning for work. Rothko was lying face-up on the kitchen floor of his studio in a pool of blood, his arms outstretched. He was dressed in an undershirt, long johns and long black socks. He had removed his glasses, shoes and trousers (which were found folded over the back of a chair) before slitting his arms with a double-edged razor. He first took the razor in his right hand (after ca refully wrapping a tissue over one one side of the razor) and made a cut in his left arm. He then switched the razor to his left hand and made an even deeper cut in his right arm. Both cuts were made just below the bend of the elbow. The autopsy revealed that Rothko had also overdosed on anti-depressants.

Writer and playwright Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops he frequently used in his suite at the age of 72 in Hotel Elysee, 60 East 54th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

Williams' use of drugs and alcohol may have contributed to his death by suppressing his gag reflex.

37-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

(-)45 years ago

Tuesday 24th of February 1970

Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann known for shooting Rudi Dutschke commits suicide by asphyxia with a plastic bag at the age of 26 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

(-)42 years ago

Saturday 24th of February 1973

Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimek at the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia.

"After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."

(-)15 years ago

Thursday 24th of February 2000

Murderess Betty Lou Beets, originally Betty Lou Dunevant is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Beets was convicted to death for shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on 6 August 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of another Beets' husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Beets did not request a final meal.

(-)9 years ago

Friday 24th of February 2006

Actor Dennis William Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Ridgway, Colorado, United States.

9 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 24th of February 2006

The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.